gotto love every faction craving for their own designs. - in the end, even the gaians will get their very own ships.... they will be called : hawk, falcon, eagle. - and they will fit into FL perfectly, cause they are vanilla with perfect hitboxes:).
in RP, should a faction like the hackers ( tinyish liberty criminals ) really get their own shipsline? - a shipline like the centurion / titan took the corsairs centuries to develope...... but then, maybe the corsairs are just a little dim witted why it took them so long to make two unique ship designs.
I personally love the Borderworlds ship line on my Hacker, and I don't think they would invest such a large sum of credits into a new ship line with their weapons in their current state.
People...The guns aren't that bad if you know how to use them! Yes, they need to be buffed, but not that badly..!!
Me, Guardian,
4 Hellflurries
1 Imp deb
Class 2 Hacker turret
vs
Monk, Sabre
6 Krakens
Deb Turret
And I won....Despite being in a slower ship, that has one gun less, and a shoddy turret...
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Soldato Zavier Benitez, Benitez flight instructor.
Denelo asked me to continue his Lane Hacker shipline project. Well, it went pretty well 'till I formatted my computer and forgot to make backups of a part of my stuff. The doc file with the stats included.
Hackers don't need a complete shipline, but they really could use a nice mobile but weak VHF. Something with a big powerplant and nice turning, but little hull, maybe only allow level 9 HF shield.
' Wrote:Enough with the vanilla sabers and daggers, can we get some initial concept models for lane hacker fighters and bombers made? Preferrably following the appearance of their current gunship?
Personally, I like the big front-end "muscle-car" look that the gunship has, and think it would look awesome for fighters if done right. Big grill, powerful looking ships designed a bit like WW2 fighter planes, a bit slower than usual but with better firepower.
Some concepts to help the modellers out (i'm supposed to get my copy of 3ds max pretty soon, sometime this week I hope, so I'll finally be able to put some of my own models up here):
VHF Concept:
Mk2 Light Fighter Concept (comparable to the patriot, loki, etc):
Bomber Concept:
if the first one gets into the mod I'll start flying it.
Ships
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Cargo Metroid- CSV - Unlicensed (I'm not gonna license my Cargo person)</strike>
Gonna start anew...
I generally don't think it's necessary for all the criminal factions to get their own shiplines, but I think the Hackers are an exception. Look at them; they can make huge amounts of money simply by fraud, they're the best pirates in the game because of their hacking abilities, and they even have their own shipyard (which, admittedly, might have been stretching it a bit on the part of HF. Hey, blame Tank, not me), and they have the Outcasts as close allies. They're the most technologically advanced faction in the game with the possible exception of the Order (and, obviously, the SK, but they don't count as most of what they have is organic). I think the Hackers would go about developing themselves their own specialized ships, much like the Gunboat. If they can design and manufacture a Gunboat, why not a few fighters? They have the means and the motive, so let's get to it.
EDIT: Also, the first two might be viable, but the third? No. That's the Xeno Battlewagon right there.
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